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Marriage is a life-time commitment which, by tra- dition and as Africans, demands that a lady, and not a girl, be prepared mentally, morally, socially, psychologically as well as physically before she can undertake the commitment.

In this time and era, we include even the economic preparation because gone are the days when a woman would be totally and entirely dependent on a man for support and supply.
This can be made possible only when we encour- age a girl child to attain high levels of education; which is practically impossible to attain if one is given in to marriage at a tender age.

Marrying off a minor only causes chaos, damage, pandemonium, calamity, harm, confusion and dis-order in the life of a child.

That is why we call it an ACTION OF DESTRUCTION!.


“ACTION OF DESTRUCTION” A 120 MINUTES FEATURE FILM ONE LINER An intriguing story of an innocent, decent, 13yr old school girl who was being forced to marry a man who rapped her and made her pregnant in the process; thereby psychologically killing her slowly.

SYNOPSIS On her way from Kabangame, Chikaka gets rapped by Shi-Sharon, a man she knows very well.

Upon reporting the incidence to her parents, it is decided that the perpetrator gets arrested.
But Chikaka’s father, who is very much interested in gaining materially, convinces everyone that the perpetrator just pays for the damage caused.

Shi- Sharon is then left to hung loose.

Three months down the line, it is discovered that Chikaka got pregnant in the process of rape.

Her mother goes wild in wanting Shi-Sharon to pay the consequences of his actions.

But Chikaka’s father considers how well the man lives, and decides to marry off her daughter to him.
The world of Chikaka gets divided on this issue.

What will she do?

In no time, news gets to her school and eventually the whole world knows that she is about to get married.

Chikaka has learnt at school about the devastating effects of early child marriage.

She cannot and must not allow an ACTION OF DESTRUCTION to dictate her future.

Against all odds, she must fight for what is good for her.

In her quest to deliver herself, all hell breaks loose on her.
However, Mwansa her closest friend sticks by her side through it all.

Eventually, the silent cry of a girl child is head and the necessary action to completely eradicate the barbaric vice is taken.

Finally, Chikaka can then proudly plan for her future.

“EDUCATING, INFORMING, ENTERTAINING AND MOTIVATING” SUMMARY GENRE This movie primarily seeks to address some of the cross-cutting issues that daily affect both non and school going children.
First it seeks to teach a girl child to use her right of saying ‘NO’ to any form of forced marriage, despite the circumstance.

Secondly, it seeks to teach the society that forcing early child marriage is an action of destruction towards the lives of the children.

Through Chikaka’s experience, the audience learns to understand how young girls who are forced into early marriages feel.

They learn how young girls are forced into lifting loads of marriage, too heavy for them to bear.
The audience also takes a journey of discovery that some times it is not just right to capitalize on the girl child’s inability to make her own decisions.

Therefore, every support necessary should be rendered to these girls, and attention should be given to their feelings so as to make right deduction.

The girls should learn also of the dangers of indulging in early marriages at the expense of studying.

Girls should learn that there is time for everything.
Time for school must be dedicated to such with all vigour be- cause time lost is never regained.

This is a 120 minutes feature film with an optimistic storyline about the pains within and outside the bounds of early child marriage.

At every stage one laughs, sympathizes, sheds tears of joy and saddens and embraces the emotions of the characters.

DURATION The length is such as to fill a feature film theatrical slot (120 minutes).
GENRE ‘Drama’ TARGET GROUPS The movie seeks to teach first the school going children, and generally everyone in all works of life as this child marriage thing affects all.

The movie is intended to be shown on ‘Big Screen’ at a very minimal fee, which will help to cater for payments (as motivation) to the cast as well as the crew, as well as to meet other administra- tion costs of the group.